Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-09
Convention In Isle Of
Wight County.
ISLE OF WIGHT COURTHOUSE, VA.

ISLE OF WIGHT COURTHOUSE, VA,
March 26, 1887.
At a convention held at Isle of Wight
Courthouse to-day by tie Democratic
voters of the county for the purpose OF
nominating candidates for the different
county Offices Mr.. G. +. Day was made
chairman and j. G. Goodrich and l.. J..
Darden secretaries. The chairman APP
pointed q committee of one from each
vOting-precinct to draft suitable reso-
lutions, and after the committee had
retired for about half an hour it re-
turned with the following, which were
adopted
!. ResOlced, That parties are formed
for the advocacy and adoption of mea-
sures, and that it is only by parties and
through parties that these measures can
he carried to success.
2. That ss these measures cannot be
carried out by the people at large meet
ings en- mass they must be carried out,
and can only be carried out by their
agents meeting in convention, i'll legis-
latures, in Congress, or otherwise.
3. That when their agents have so
met and acted their actions ought to
be ratified and endorsed because in
morals and in law the action of duly
authorized agent is the action Of the
principal, and he who goes back on his
agent goes back on himself.
4. That as party measures can only
be carried out by party men-when
the party has met in solemn conven-
ton and made its nominations-it is
the duty of the party to stand by its
party nominees, and to vote for them
as the opponents of the party faith, as
the representatives of the party mea-
sures, the Democratic doctrine being,
now as it always has been, measures,
not men"
5. In the State and out of it there are
only two parties, Republican party
and a Democratic party, and no such
thing as an Independent party does or
can exist. Every Democratic vote cast
for an Independent is a Democratic
vote taken from the Democratic nomi-
nee, and, in its effects, aids the Repub-
licans. "ln union there is strength"
in politics as in war, the maxim is
" Divide and conquer and if the
Republicans of the county can procure
a Democrat to run as an Independent,
it will be with the hope of dividing and
conquering us, and will inevitably re-
suit in putting this county under negro
rule and negro domination.
6. That "to err is human, to forgive
divine, and we therefore earnestly and
recommend that all past
of any and every kind, real
or fancied, committed or supposed 70
byus, or by any oneof our
,..,, i IL, - forgotten ana forgiven. |
and that we bury IN the defeat OF Cur
foes all Of their hopes of discussion
ourselves.
z. That offices belong to the people |
and not to an individual, and the fail
ure to secure q nomination does not |
Justify any man in either seeking or in |
raising the standard of revolt, and |
therefore that all nominations made to-
day are made on the distinct under
standing that all the candidates and
their friends are to cordially and 10y
ally support the ticket.
Nominations next being in order Mr..
n. z. Young was nominated by accla-
nation for county clerk, there being no
and Mr.. J. II. Nelms for
Commonwealth attorney. For sheriff,
Z. A. Edwards and Thomas j. Glenn
ants /; for treasurer, j. Q. Branch and n.
b. Mumford for commissioner Of the
'evenue, j. b. Porter, Jesse Whitley,
D. l.. Batem, F. W. Randolph, and L.
E. Edwards. There being no other
name before the convention the vote
vas taken, which result was as follows
For Sheriff.. A. Edwards.
For Treasurer. 0. Branch.
For Commissioner of the Revenue-J.
3. Porter.